It's Over 9000.

This isn't another meme post or a funny article.  The title simply says this: Over 9000 languages will be lost.

It's both a tragedy and a step forward.  Surely I may be considered a pessimist for thinking like this, but hear out this train of thought.

In the steps towards technological innovation phone companies had a problem.  5 years ago many different types of phone chargers were floating around.  Each were generally specific to the model or brand of phone, and seldomly they were cross compatable.  In today's world, there's only two different types of phone chargers.  Ones that are for Apple products, and those which are not. 

The same is true of the development of all Apple products.  Instead of creating different operating systems for their devices, they have created a single operating system in which to run their hardware.  Windows 8 is a testimate to this as well.

If this is how technology behaves, then why do we expect anything different when it comes to languages?  Just like different phone chargers or different operating systems, they create a barrier in which time is in some way spent overcoming.

It's my belief that the world will all one day convert to English or Mandarin.  Why?  Well here's some facts.

- All computer coding software availible is in english.  While string variables can be in any language, it takes additional software to convert the reserved words of a programming language into another spoken language.  Granted, this would have to be done for every single computer language used today (HTML, CSS, PHP, Objective C, C++, C#, VB, Java, Javascript, SQL, mrSQL, etc...)

-Mandarin according to Vanishing Voices is the most spoken first language. 


It's a tough reality to accept, but it's the future I'm bracing for.  It's simply the pattern that has already affected everything else.